About John Vine Hall
Lived 1774 – 1860 (aged 85–86). John Vine Hall was a businessperson.
John Vine Hall (1774–1860) was an English bookseller, known as a religious writer.
Life Hall was born on 14 March 1774 in Diss, Norfolk, where his father had come down in the world. At 11 he was apprenticed to a schoolmaster who taught him the legal lands, then hired him out. In January 1786 he became errand-boy to a bookseller in Maidstone, and rose to be the chief assistant.
In 1801 Hall became clerk and traveller to a Maidstone wine merchant. He drank, and read Constantin Volney's Law of Nature and Tom Paine's The Age of Reason. In 1802 a friend lent him Beilby Porteus's Evidences of Christianity, and his views changed. In February 1804 he bought a bookseller's shop at Worcester, and moved there. In 1812 he became the subject of strong religious convictions.
Vine became an elder in Surrey Chapel, Southwark, where his son was minister.
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British bookseller
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John Vine Hall died in 1860.
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